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Interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn has wanted to run a company like Yahoo his entire career. Former colleagues and employees say he'll bring candor and a likable personality to the job.

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Most young people fresh to the workforce still must observe some basic rules of etiquette. Steve Jobs may have gotten away with not bathing and screaming at employees during his youth (and later on), but most people can't behave this way and survive.

An unusual mentoring relationship at NASA is behind the open source version of cloud computing, an effort that could upend Amazon as king of a Web services industry expected to grow to $20 billion in three years.

Yahoo's interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, forged strong alliances with executives at Madison Avenue agencies that represent the biggest ad spenders, setting him apart from his predecessors, who had no ad experience.

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Yahoo Chief Executive Scott Thompson agreed to resign over misstatements in his official bio that claimed he had a degree in computer science, according to The Wall Street Journal.